Tonight, on the ground from the Texas Hill country, as the waters recede and the death toll now exceeds 100 lives lost.

Rivers all over central Texas rose and rose so much death and destruction downstream.

One river rising 32 feet in just 90 minutes, unleashing a force like a massive dam burst. The sheer force of

destruction, immense. The new video coming in of rescues off of rooftops, as stories of survivors

awaken to their homes, filled with waters emerge, but so many, not so lucky. I just remember

holding him so he would get swept in the flood.

His last words to me was, Mom, I love you.

And asleep along the riverbanks, various camps for kids, hundreds made it out, but dozens did not.

Tonight, 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic alone among the dead and missing.

Two girls found together 15 miles downstream were on the riverbanks as rescues continue.

Responders seen the unthinkable and combing miles of giant knots of trees, cars, and homes.

Plus, the urgent rescues as Tropical Depression,

Shantal spins up reported tornadoes and lays waste to North Carolina.

The large immigration operation in L.A. descending on a popular park there.

The president threatens massive tariffs against some of America's closest trading partners,

including Japan and South Korea.

And through hell and high water, how our correspondent's family helped lift others up this flood

and out of the waters and the flashback to the one they survived nearly 40 years ago.

This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Yamas, reporting tonight from

Kerrville, Texas. And good evening. We come on the air tonight from Texas's hill country. Just below us is

the Guadalupe River, and you can see the destruction it carved out in parts of central Texas.

Down there is where the river stands tonight, and we wanted to show you how high it rose,

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